Obama to the Doctor

CHICAGO, Illinois (CNN) – Just back from an eight-day trip to the Middle East and Europe, Barack Obama went to see a doctor Sunday night at the University of Chicago Medical Center to examine a sore hip.

"His hip has been sore from basketball for a few weeks so he's going to see an orthopedic doctor," said senior adviser Robert Gibbs.

Obama works out almost every day and is an avid basketball player. The last time he played was shooting around with U.S. troops on a quick stop in Kuwait where he complained of hip pain.

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I think it would be funny if Obama needs a hip replacement before McCain

Admit it, it would be funny lol. Not that any of it matters, but I would at least find it humorous.

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For me there is no humour in this Rob. What it rings of is a cheap attempt at a shot at Obama using wishful thinking. It's not you Rob, or at least I thought it wasn't you? There is really nothing funy about any young man needing a hip replacement.

For me there is no humour in this Rob. What it rings of is a cheap attempt at a shot at Obama using wishful thinking. It's not you Rob, or at least I thought it wasn't you? There is really nothing funy about any young man needing a hip replacement.

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I am not gonna get into this with you. Obviously I do not wish harm on anyone in the race, I just think it would ironic, since McCain is the "old" one.

Republican presidential candidate John McCain, who has suffered from skin cancer in the past, said on Monday his doctor has removed a spot from his face during a routine checkup in Phoenix earlier in the day.

McCain said the spot on the right side of his face, which an aide described as being like a mole, would be biopsied.

"At this point it was just a precautionary removal," an aide told reporters on McCain's campaign plane.

The Arizona senator discussed the spot while speaking to journalists at an oil field in Bakersfield, California, where he was pushing his energy agenda.

McCain has had four malignant melanomas -- a potentially lethal type of skin cancer -- surgically removed since 1993. Three of them were limited to the top layers of the skin and were not invasive.

The fourth melanoma, removed from his left temple in 2000, was invasive. During that surgery, doctors also took out lymph nodes to see if the cancer had spread.

Doctors have removed other less serious skin cancers, including basal cell and squamous cell cancers, from McCain's skin without complication.

As a skin cancer survivor, McCain remains at risk for recurrence or new cancers.

I always have said that just before time runs out and providing that McCain is looking like too much of a loser, they would find a reason to pull him. And I predicted that it would be because of his Cancer problems on his face.